Architect leads land bank

Published 7:55 pm, Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Troy

Joe Fama, who founded the Troy Architectural Program, a Troy-based community design and planning center in 1969 and spent the next 46 years there, was named part-time executive director of Troy Community Land Bank. Fama, an architect since 1975, is active in Troy's neighborhoods. The land bank seeks to redevelop vacant, abandoned and underused properties.